French films Romance
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A young woman, Nelly, arrives in a remote Mexican town with her sick husband. Diagnosed with having meningitis, her husband dies a short while later and Nelly is left alone, having lost her money and her travel tickets. She is drawn to a scruffy drunk named Georges who, she discovers, is an French expatriate who never recovered from the tragic death of his wife....
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A wealthy Countess decides to sell her earrings to pay off a small debt, leading her husband to believe that the jewels have been lost. The Count discovers the earrings in a jeweller’s shop and buys them back, offering them as a parting gift to his mistress. The jewels are subsequently lost in a gambling casino in Constantinople and bought by a diplomat...
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Having been pushed into marrying her sickly cousin at an early age, Thérèse Raquin is trapped in a life of boredom without passion or fulfilment. She works in her husband’s haberdashery in Lyons and lives with the bullying aunt who forced her into the loveless marriage. One day she meets Laurent, a handsome Italian lorry driver...
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Once a professional boxer, Victor now has only one ambition: to coach a young amateur boxer to become a true champion. He immediately sees potential in a young railway worker, André, and, noting his enthusiasm for the sport, offers to train him. André accepts willingly, although he soon realises that Victor’s wife Blanche is not happy with the arrangement...
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Nini, a pretty laundry worker, is recruited by Monsieur Danglard, along with a number of other attractive young women, to join his theatre company. Danglard plans to open a new cabaret venue, the Moulin Rouge in Paris, with live performances of the cancan being the star attraction. Nini is seduced by Danglard, although she has a boyfriend...
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Marie Prieur is a 28-year-old, recently qualified doctor who is about to take up her first post at Oudessant, a small island off the coast of Brittany. She receives a lukewarm welcome from the locals; in fact, the only person who seems pleased to see her is the old schoolteacher, Mademoiselle Leblanc. Marie’s first patient is a young girl named Aline...
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André Ripois is a young Frenchman who cannot help seducing attractive English women. He is drawn to them like a moth to the flame, the victim of a fatal attraction that will doubtless be his downfall one day. Tired of her husband’s endless infidelities, Catherine Ripois finally decides to divorce him, but even as she prepares to make this move André has embarked on his...
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At the music academy of Vienna, Sophie and Elisa are both in love with their teacher, the tenor Eric Walter. But Eric has only one true love, his wife Marie. A famous opera singer, Marie is more preoccupied with her career than her marriage and spends most of her time apart from her husband. Eric tries to hide his grief by consoling himself with the sensual charms of Sophie and the more romantic...
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During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops into a passionate love affair, even though Jean is already married and is old enough to be Clothilde’s father. Things take a turn for the worse when Jean loses his job and his wife finds out about his affair...
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Captain Le Quévic intends to raise a sunken ship at the entrance to the port of Marseilles, not knowing that it contains the body of a murdered woman. The ship’s owner, a local gangster named Black, plans to sabotage the operation, since it was he who killed the woman to prevent her from revealing his crooked activities...
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A wealthy nougat manufacturer, Fernand Sarrazin, saves a young girl, Cécilia, from drowning. In her gratitude, Cécilia falls in love with him and, despite the difference in their ages, the two get married. The union does not please Fernand’s sister-in-law, Julie, who intends to separate the happy couple...
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After the war, Pierre Roubier returns home, optimistic about the future, only to find his wife in bed with another man. In a moment of madness, Pierre shoots his wife’s lover dead. Arrested and tried for the murder, Pierre is given a light sentence on account of his impressive military record. A few years later, Pierre is once again a free man and he goes to Portugal to start a new...
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Armand de la Verne is a soldier in the French cavalry in the late 1800s/early 1900s, and he sees himself as something of a Don Juan, a man whom no woman can refuse. Whilst stationed in a French provincial town, he offers a wager to his fellow soldiers that he can seduce any woman who takes his fancy before they depart for their summer manoevures...
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The Heiligenstadt estate in Bavaria has become a private school for the male offspring of the well-to-do. There, the boys have organised themselves into two factions - the Sages, led by the sensible Manfred, and the Brigands, led by the hot-headed Alexis. One day, the school has a new arrival: Vincent, an amiable adolescent who has grown up on a farm in Argentina...
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Paul Latour, the owner of a cabaret, is suspected by the police of being a banknote forger. He decides to leave Paris and asks Jean Clery, the cabaret’s star performer, to take care of his daughter, Brigitte. Jean is convinced that Brigitte has been brought up in a high class institution and is ignorant of her father’s criminal activities...
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Éléna is a young Polish widow who lives in Paris of the 1880s. During Bastile Day celebrations, she meets and is nearly seduced by a young count, Henri Chevincourt - although she intends to marry a wealthy shoe manufacturer, Martin-Michaud. She also meets and flirts with a popular general, Rollan, who succumbs to her charms...
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Catherine is an attractive young woman who lives in the country with her two aunts. One day, she is discovered by Judith Aurigault and her partner Michel, the owners of a popular woman’s magazine based in Paris. They offer Catherine the opportunity to become a cover girl and she accepts without hesitation. Judith and Michel plan to build a spectacular romantic story around Catherine...
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One Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double. Julien is in love with Marinette, a pretty waitress, but he is too shy to make any romantic overtures. Eric decides to give the course of true love a helping hand by pretending to be Julien...
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A French engineer, Pierre Marsac, accepts a posting with an oil company in the Japanese city Nagasaki, where he falls in love with a young local girl, Noriko. Pierre is all set on marrying Noriko when an old flame, Françoise, suddenly turns up out of the blue. Françoise is determined to win back her former lover and seems to succeed...
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Vienna, 1906. For some time, Franz Lobheiner, a lieutenant in the Austrian army, has been having a secret love affair with Lena, the wife of Baron Eggersdorf. Having grown tired of this affair, Frantz decides to end it and transfers his affections to Christine, an aspiring young opera singer who has an idealistic view of love...
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